Trialing Acrobat Pro X - Quick Question RE: OCR

I open the PDF, but I'm very new to Acrobat - unless I am missing something, I am not finding anything to use OCR for my scanned document.  In some help thread I read, it mentioned to select "DOCUMENT", then there are some OCR options...when with the document opened, I don't see any "DOCUMENT" option.
Can someone help me on this?
Thanks!
Andy

Thanks, Lori!
I see that now - and it processed - but where does the output go?
Andy

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